Star profile
HYG 119003
Binary systemWhat is HYG 119003
Almost a neighbour of ours, 41.6 light-years away in Boötes, spins a binary A-type system: two white sisters bound by gravity. Its light set out around 1984, when HIV was being identified and the world learned a new name for human fragility. Hotter than the Sun, with surfaces near 8,500 degrees, both shine with a bright pearly glow, dancing one around the other from remote times.
Where it is and when to see it
HYG 119003 lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is April: the Sun sits at the opposite point of the sky and the star culminates around midnight. How high it climbs above the horizon depends on the latitude you watch from.
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Astronomical data for HYG 119003
- Constellation
- Boötes
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.96
- Distance
- 41.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 225.949° · Dec 47.654°
- Catalogue
- HYG 119003
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Other stars in Boötes
Boötes has 88 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- ArcturusAlpha Boötis-0.05
- IzarEpsilon Boötis2.35
- MuphridEta Boötis2.68
- 26 Boötis5.91
- HIP 717595.93
- HIP 703845.94
- 3 Boötis5.97
- HYG 1196265.98